Where do i put my data?!

Abstract

Now that we all live in a post-relational world, we need to get past the flavor du jour and think harder about how to deal with all this data. Arguing about consistency versus scalability isn't useful any more. Instead, we need to think about what it means to be consistent in a distributed world. Have we achieved consistency if all the database servers agree on the value of a row? Maybe, but what about the cached value sitting in memory in the application servers? What about the value in a packet being routed to a user?

Data reaches far beyond its long-term home in the database. We should account for that and use a more sophisticated framework for decisions. This session presents the multidimensional tensions that underlie our decisions about data and offers a way to match solutions up against our systems' unique needs.